Associations between Involvement in Bullying and Emotional and Behavioral Symptoms: Are there Differences between Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Youth?

Kurki-Kangas, Leena; Fröjd, Sari; Haravuori, Henna; Marttunen, Mauri; Kaltiala, Riittakerttu

doi:10.1080/15388220.2019.1691009

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“…Eighteen studies had data that allowed meta-analysis, comprising 21,781 LGBT+ individuals (Attebery et al, 2020;Battalen et al, 2020;Button, 2016;Byrd, 2015;Donahue et al, 2017;Duarte et al, 2018;Garaigordobil & Larrain, 2020;Jones et al, 2017;Kurki-Kangas et al, 2019;Li et al, 2019;Lowry et al, 2020.;McNamee et al, 2008;Mittleman, 2019;Peters et al, 2020;Price Feeney et al, 2018.;Veale et al, 2017;Zhao et al, 2020).…”

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“…A range of adverse experiences were examined (Table 1 ). A range of 7.04% (Kurki‐Kangas et al., 2019 ) to 99.92% (Zhao et al., 2020 ) of LGBT+ youth were reported to have experienced an ACE. Studies measuring victimisation as a distinct category, such as combining being teased or bullied, hit or beaten up, treated unfairly and public ridicule due to actual or perceived sexual minority status, had a range of 4% (Lowery et al., 2020 ) to 69% (Veale et al., 2017 ).…”

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“…From the available data, the most commonly described psychiatric outcome was depressive symptoms ( n = 17, 63%), which ranged between 12% (Peters et al., 2020 ) to 82% (Byrd, 2015 ) of LGBT+ adolescents. Anxiety symptoms was the focus of six studies (22.2%; Byrd, 2015 ; Chodzen et al., 2019 ; Donahue et al., 2017 ; Garaigordibil et al., 2020 ; Jones et al., 2017 ; Kurki‐Kangas et al., 2019 ; Zhao et al., 2020 ), and ranged between 18.3% (Kurki‐Kangas et al., 2019 ) and 72% (Byrd et al., 2015 ) of LGBT+ adolescents. Furthermore, three studies examined the impact of trauma on nonsuicidal self‐injury or NSSI (Li et al., 2019 ; Peters et al., 2020 ; Veale et al., 2017 ).…”

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“…A range of adverse experiences were examined (Table 1). A range of 7.04% (Kurki-Kangas et al, 2019) to 99.92% (Zhao et al, 2020) of…”

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A systematic review and meta‐analysis investigating the impact of childhood adversities on the mental health of LGBT+ youth

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Background The presence of trauma as a backdrop to the lives of LGBT+ youth has been recognised in recent literature. LGBT+ youth report a higher frequency, severity and pervasiveness of adverse childhood experiences when compared to their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts. This exposure has been directly related to an increased risk of mental health problems. Method A systematic literature search of Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, PubMed and Web of Science was conducted from the date of their inception until the 1st September 2021. The study protocol was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42021240472). Results A total of 27 studies satisfied the inclusion criteria and were used in the systematic review, representing 199,285 participants, 26,505 of whom identified as LGBT+ (mean age 16.54). Female participants (ranging from 11% to 74%) and white participants (7.7%–96%) made up the largest percentage of most samples. Depressive symptoms were the most commonly described psychiatric outcome (n = 17, 63%), followed by anxiety symptoms (n = 6, 31.5%). 18 studies provided meta‐analysable data, compromising 21,781 LGBT+ young people. LGBT+ youth reported a higher prevalence of adverse experiences in comparison to their heterosexual or cisgender counterparts (p < .001), with sexual abuse representing the most commonly reported experience (29.7%), followed by verbal abuse (28.7%), physical abuse (26.5%) and cyberbullying (19.1%). LGBT+ youth were also at a heightened risk of mental health disorders (p < .001), with 36.9% and 31.5% of sample meeting the clinical criteria for depression and anxiety, respectively. Conclusions Continued advocacy is needed from communities and Allies to support and empower LGBT+ youth in the face of adversity. Longitudinal and longer‐term studies are required to further understand the relationship between adverse experiences in LGBT+ youth and the impact on mental health.

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“…A range of adverse experiences were examined (Table 1). A range of 7.04% (Kurki-Kangas et al, 2019) to 99.92% (Zhao et al, 2020) of…”

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“…A Finnish study utilizing data from The School Health Promotion Study wave conducted in 2017 showed that 4.3% of cisgender youth, 12.8% of those identifying as opposite sex, and 16.5% of those with non-binary gender in the comprehensive education, and 1.6% of cisgender youth, 5.8% of those identifying as opposite sex, and 8.5% of those with non-binary gender in the upper secondary education had been bullied at least once a week during the ongoing school term (Heino, et al, 2021 ). The results of another Finnish study showed that being subjected to bullying was associated with emotional and mental health symptoms among both heterosexual and sexual minority youth (Kurki-Kangas, et al, 2020 ). Another study showed that both being bullied and acting as a bully were associated with depression and suicidality (Kaltiala-Heino, et al, 1999 ).…”

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Gendered Differences in Experiences of Bullying and Mental Health Among Transgender and Cisgender Youth

Sares-Jäske

Czimbalmos

Majlander

et al. 2023

J Youth Adolescence

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Even though previous studies have shown that transgender youth have poorer mental health and more experiences of being bullied than their cisgender counterparts, and that bullying associates with poorer mental health, knowledge on such associations in different gender identity groups is scarce. This study investigated how mental health problems and experiences of being bullied appear across different gender identity groups, and how bullying is associated with mental health among the groups in question. Data from the Finnish School Health Promotion 2021 study (n = 152,880, mean age 16.2 years (standard deviation 1.22)) was used and categorized into four gender identity groups: cisgender girls (n = 76,521), cisgender boys (n = 69,735), transfeminine youth (n = 1317), and transmasculine youth (n = 5307). Transgender youth experienced more bullying and reported poorer mental health than cisgender youth. While transfeminine youth faced the most bullying, transmasculine youth had the most mental health symptoms. In each group, bullying associated with poorer mental health. Compared to cisgender boys without bullying experiences, odds of poorer mental health were dozens-fold among transmasculine youth with weekly bullying experiences. In addition, compared to cisgender boys with bullying experiences, odds of poorer mental health were greater among all other gender identity groups with bullying experiences, and among transmasculine youth in particular (e.g., odds ratio of generalized anxiety = 8.36 (95% confidence interval, 6.59–10.6)). Bullying is associated with poorer mental health in all youth, but transgender youth, and especially transmasculine youth, may be in an even more vulnerable position for its implications. This suggests that there is a need for improving effective measures to decrease bullying in schools and to improve wellbeing of transgender youth.

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Bullying Victimization and Sexual Wellbeing in Sexually Active Heterosexual, Cisgender and Sexual/Gender Minority Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation

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Dion

Bőthe

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J Youth Adolescence

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Associations between Involvement in Bullying and Emotional and Behavioral Symptoms: Are there Differences between Heterosexual and Sexual Minority Youth?

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

A systematic review and meta‐analysis investigating the impact of childhood adversities on the mental health of LGBT+ youth

A systematic review and meta‐analysis investigating the impact of childhood adversities on the mental health of LGBT+ youth

Gendered Differences in Experiences of Bullying and Mental Health Among Transgender and Cisgender Youth

Bullying Victimization and Sexual Wellbeing in Sexually Active Heterosexual, Cisgender and Sexual/Gender Minority Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation

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